Helpful books

Talking Cancer

J. Briscoe & R. Collins

Quill Print, 1996

ISBN 0952042436

Cancer: What every patient

needs to know

Jeffrey Tobias

Bloomsbury, 1999

ISBN 0747545650

Cancer: the facts

Michael Whitehouse and

Maurice Slevin

Oxford University Press, 1996

ISBN 0192616951

Cancer: a positive approach

Hiliary Thomas and Karol Sikora

Thorsons, 1995

ISBN 072253132X

What you really need to know about cancer

Robert Buckman

Pan, 1997

ISBN 0330336282

For more useful information please read the Directory of Cancer Care Services in Ireland. For a copy of this booklet call the Cancer Helpline Freefone 1800 200 700

Acknowledgements

We would like to extend to the following people a special word of thanks for their invaluable contributions to this booklet:

Jo Ballot, Clinical Trials Co-ordinator

Loreto Kissane, Oncology Liaison Nurse

Nicky Martin, Medical Social Worker

Isobel Thompson, Lymphoma Support Ireland

We hope that this information has been of help to you. If you have any suggestions as to how it could be improved, we would be delighted to hear from you. Your comments would help us greatly in the preparation of future information booklets for people with cancer and their carers.

If, after reading this information or at any time in the future, you feel you would like more information or someone to talk to, please phone our Cancer Helpline Nurses on Freefone 1800 200 700.

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